Flock & ALPR Cameras in Dowagiac, Michigan
Volunteers have reported 6 automated license plate readers in and around Dowagiac — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 6 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Dowagiac, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 1 of them sits inside Dowagiac itself.
The rest sit in Pokagon Township (3), Silver Creek Township (2).
Source: community-mapped camera data (OpenStreetMap, ODbL), with addresses resolved by Nominatim.
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No new reports near Dowagiac in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 7, 16:21 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.
Where the cameras are in Dowagiac
The readers mapped around Dowagiac break down as 6 Flock Safety. The first camera here was reported in Jan 2025; the most recent in Aug 2026.
- M-51 — 2 readers
- Riverside Drive — 1 reader
- Indian Lake Road — 1 reader
- Pokagon Highway — 1 reader
- Warren Drive — 1 reader
Dowagiac in the Cass County picture
Cass County has 10 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #1,402 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident. That’s across 51,606 residents and 941 road miles. By road density that is 0.01 cameras per road mile, in the top 42.3% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 6 traffic.
Camera activity around Dowagiac, last 30 days
2 newly reported in our hourly change log for Dowagiac. Latest change logged Sep 1, 2026.
What’s watching Dowagiac
These aren’t red-light cameras. Automated license plate readers like Flock Safety’s photograph every plate that passes, log the time and place, and store it in a searchable database that’s often shared far beyond Dowagiac — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Dowagiac (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
What you can do in Dowagiac
Ask who approved these cameras, how long plate data is kept, and who it’s shared with. File a public records request, raise it at a council meeting, and see the full playbook on Take Action. Fighting this locally? Join or start a chapter and we’ll amplify you.
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Cameras near Dowagiac
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).